This morning, I walked to the Indian Ocean and made salt in defiance of
the British Occupation of India.Â This morning, I marched in Selma; I
stood down tanks in Tiananmen Square, and I helped tear down the Berlin
Wall.Â This morning I became a Freedom Rider.

Todayâ€™s Freedom Riders are sailing small boats into the Gaza Strip in
open defiance of the Israeli Occupation and blockade.Â This morning, I
arrived in Gaza aboard the SS Dignity, part of a Free Gaza Movement
delegation of twenty seven doctors, lawyers, teachers, and human rights
activists from across the world, including Mairead Maguireâ€”the 1976
Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Members of the Christian Peacemaker Team in Iraqi Kurdistan visited an
IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp near Zharawa on 31 October 2008
and saw fifty families from nine surrounding villages living under
deplorable conditions.Â The families had to flee their villages because
of aerial bombardment and shelling by Turkish planes from the north and
Iranian missiles from the west.Â CPTers heard bombs in the distance
while visiting the camp.